Belt Loops

[trlarue]

I was informed the other week in a training course that when a boy crosses from bear to webelo he has to re-earn his belt loops. I can't find this in writing anywhere. I was even told there was a separate book. Ijust went to the national site and found nothing about this. Can anyone help? Is this real, if so where can I find it in writing?

[Tami the Mom]

Almost all of the Webelos pins require re-earning one or two beltloops. My pack doesn't give the boys another beltloop, we just give them credit for earning it again. All of this information should be in his Webelos handbook.

[SSScout]

Yes and no. A belt loop may be earned more then once, frinstance, each time a Cub attends the CSDC here (once a year!), he qualifies for the Archery BL. If our Pack went skating each year, the boys could earn another skating BL. Same knowledge and skill demonstration.

But Webelos requirements are a seperate thing, and must be earned seperately, not by being given credit for past activities.

 

After all, it's all good!(This message has been edited by SSScout)

[Lisabob]

Sometimes there seems to be some fuzziness about this in training. For example, I've heard trainers (and others) assert that webelos boys cannot wear their "old" beltloops any longer. This is untrue.

 

However, SOME of the beltloops need to be earned, or re-earned, as a webelos scout in order to count for certain webelos activity pins. These are clearly stated in the webelos book (look at the last page of the activity pin in question - that's usually where you'll find this info about the loops). In that case, it's true that a loop earned as a tiger/wolf/bear would not "count" toward webelos advancement.

 

By the time the guys are webelos, esp., webelos II, some of them have so many loops on their belts that there is hardly room for doubles. So what we did was to have them do the requirements again (challenging them to do more/better than the first time they earned it, as appropriate for their age and skill), but we awarded small "rocker patches" instead of duplicate beltloops. The patches are cheaper and can be worn on the red vests, whereas we found that expensive duplicate beltloops quickly got stashed in a drawer somewhere anyway.

 

Hope this helps, have fun with your new webelos!

[devaney_scouts]

Webelos pin requirements require boys to earn belt loops to complete them. Some of the boys may have already earned some of the required belt loops. In my opionion, it never hurts to have a boy repeat a step. It increases familiarity and knowledge and that is what the program is built on, repeating and increasing knowledge. From Tiger to Webelos, we just expand on the same topic each year.